With 80% approval from Republicans, who would mess with Sarah Palin? After all, Republicans will be voting in the primaries, not Democrats... In fact, Sarah Palin will bring in a lot more NEW VOTERS in the primaries (just as Obama did). The Palin power within the Republican base will surprise all of you... Romney has NO CHANCE against Palin in the primaries.

"The dynamic here"...Come on Ben you can do better than this. Gov. Palin just put the smackdown on Romney and his K-Street fundraisers. Romney just throw his staff under the bus and headed to the high ground. Romney's so-called money machine just got a wake-up call on undisciplined and weak he really is. The D.C. establishment is totally blind to the Palin army of supporters. Just wait and see.

You need to retake that Politics class. This is now, $arah’s 80% Repub approval rating will nose dive once Conservatives get a clue about the REAL $arah. And after Reid wins reelection, Conservatives will run away from $arah in droves due to her endorsement of Sharron Angle, a person who said in a hypothetical that a child pregnant by her father should not have an abortion but rather should "make lemonade out of lemons"!!! This woman is a COLD-HEARTED FREAKIN’ LOON! Even Glenn Beck tried to warn the Tea Partiers NOT to go with an extreme far right candidate saying “Harry Reid might sneak through”. $arah played a huge part in this...thus she will pay dearly.

Listen to Glenn Beck's warning to the Tea Partiers from his June 8th radio show :

...a short clip from Beck's radio program from today, where he said tea partiers should "be careful who you get in bed with."

Beck said the tea party endorsement "may hurt the stronger Republican in the race and thus Harry Reid might sneak through."

I don't care if he's "inauthentic". I want the next president to reinstitute the free, growing, dynamic and thriving economy that made this nation a superpower for two hundred years. I want him to return respect and honor to the private sector risk takers who are the motor of this country.

As long as his policy actions are correct, he can be a purple-polka-dotted alien as far as I'm concerned. Right now, Romney's policy prescriptions, low taxes, shrinking down government and getting it out of our faces, cutting government spending and reasserting will and strength on security issues, are exactly the approach we need right now. The path we are on right now will put American into the dustbin of history.

Palin has some strengths here and there, but she can't win. However, she can help someone else win.

Posted By: I don't care if he's "inauthentic". I want the next president to reinstitute the free, growing, dyn | July 16, 2010 at 01:16 PM

Reid has a clear record of shepherding through the worst, most destructive pieces of legislation in history. His record is the story of the dismantling of America. He presided over the quasi-legal passage of healthcare reform, meting out bribes and threats to force it through. He pushed financial reform legislation through that will institutionalize bailouts and give government sweeping powers to seize private assets. His record shows a contempt for legality and the democratic process. He has completely ignored the will of the people in passing legislation the past six years while leading the Senate.

This guy is a one-man wrecking crew. Just look at the damage he's midwifed through his Senate. A ham sandwich could beat him. The polls will go up and down between now and Nov. I wouldn't take today's numbers as indicating who will win.

Posted By: Reid has a clear record of shepherding through the worst, most destructive pieces of legislation in | July 16, 2010 at 01:30 PM

It almost doesn't matter, whether Romney or Palin if neither one or the Republican Party in general FAILS to articulate what changes and what specific policies they expouse. So far, we have heard Motherhood and Apple Pie "Contracts", but nothing substantive so that Americans can understand the depth of trouble we are in because of the Obama (or, DISASTER, as I call him) agenda. Repubs. MUST detail what is wrong with the bills pushed through the Congress (against the wishes of the vast percentage of Americans), what they cost, how much more bureaucracy, how much more paperwork (why are the environmentalists so silent), comparisons with socialist countries (in Europe) showing we are marching down the same failed path, et.c etc. etc.

Sarah Palin is a vain simpleton who adores praises and compliments, and the manipulative Republicans know how to make her a sucker! Palin is not smart enough to differentiate between genuine and fake compliments. She's so easily used, and she's too naive to recognize it. The woman always thinks she knows it all, but she really doesn't... just like she thinks she knows Bristol, and she doesn't. .

If Palin decides to run, it's because she's ready. Palin knows the whole MSM will be hellbent on trying to destroy her, she wouldn't run...if she wasn't ready. Romney has nothing to worry about though, because the MSM will be on his side....for the primaries only. It's very foolish of democrats to think that 2012 will be welcoming them with big open arms like 2008 did.

"I don't care if he's "inauthentic". I want the next president to reinstitute the free, growing, dynamic and thriving economy that made this nation a superpower for two hundred years. I want him to return respect and honor to the private sector risk takers who are the motor of this country"
I guess that part about his forcing the people of the state of Massachusetts to accept universal health care was just a blip on the screen?

Posted By: "I don't care if he's "inauthentic". I want the next president to reinstitute the free, growing, dyn | July 16, 2010 at 03:51 PM

"Romney's policy prescriptions, low taxes, shrinking down government and getting it out of our faces, cutting government spending and reasserting will and strength on security issues, are exactly the approach we need right now."
This formula created this country's great depression. It also caused the recession we are in right now. You are not much of a student of history, are you? Even the history from 2 years ago.......

Posted By: "Romney's policy prescriptions, low taxes, shrinking down government and getting it out of our faces | July 16, 2010 at 03:55 PM

Mitt Romney is a class act. Sarah Palin knows it, and has been quoted that "she'd be honored to be on the same ticket with Mitt Romney." So, all you anti-Mormon idiots and liberals can go choke on a kilbasa! Mitt is going to be the next president, whether you girlie-boys like it or not!

Bottom Line: Romney can beat Obama. Palin cannot. Sarah Palin may one day make a fine president, but not after a mere 2 years of governing a state with a small population! She needs more seasoning, people! If you think differently check out Obama and let that be exhibit A). He was not ready, but his speeches convinced enough idiots that he was and now we are stuck with him! Does it somehow make it right, to elect someone unprepared, just because she is a conservative? 8 years as Energy Secretary in the upcoming Romney administration will give Sarah Palin the gravitas and seasoning she needs to acquire before seeking the presidency!

Ryan T. your long stint on the unemployment line must have turned your brain to mush. You and your fellow conservatives are going to support a once-pro-choice, universal health care supporter, ex Gov. of a true blue state? Who belongs to a religion whose founder was told by God to take multiple wives and gave the practice up only because it was a condition of Utah's admittance to the Union? Seriously? Way to stand your high moral grounds, Ryan. I hate Sarah, but at least she's always been a loon. She's not a Mitt-come-lately loon.

Anabeth, a little grumpy this afternoon? Still think, I'm on unemployment? You must not read the news. And, you're better than that Anabeth! You don't need to make a slimy attack on an entire religion because of a practice that was banned in 1892. I think you're just still smarting from Germany's whipping of England in the WC.

Liberl logic: ya can't say a bad word about Islam, (even though it is a religion that embraces the most sickening terrorism). But, you can attack Mormons even if you have to go back to the 19th century to find a valid reason to attack the most patriotic and kind hearted, industrious people in this country.

Yes, I am grumpy. Still at work here in LA. But seriously, I don't think it's sliming a major religion to call into question their motives for giving up a practice their FOUNDER said that God COMPELLED them to take part in. If they came out and said, at the time we caved in but in the century since we've contemplated the question and decided that Joseph Smith was drunk that time he heard the plural marriage call. Or, Brigham Young decided that God was wrong about the whole notion and only engaged in the plural marriage thing because he was too lazy to get so many divorces. Ugh. Every religion has their, um, difficulties. Mine does! (Catholicism, anyone?!) But you grow up and acknowledge your sins and those of your founders'. Publicly. That's my honest opinion. Anyway, about Germany? I had a bet with the husband the Krauts would win. (Not that courageous a pick, really!) I'm still enjoying the Patron. On ice. With a squeeze of lime. Nightly.

The English always overestimate how good they are in Soccer. Not having won the World Cup since 1966, belies the fact that they aren't nearly as good at the game they invented as they would have us all believe.

Ryan, yes the English tend overlook their ineptitude at football until the exact moment they lose. But they're loyal at least, you have to give them that. Husband John is taking me to Brazil in four years for the pleasure of watching the boys fail in person. That'll be fun. Ryan, I love you. You let me insult you. You make my last hour at the ad. agency fly by (as we speak I'm off the clock, that's how much you amuse me). But you didn't say a thing about my questions of Mitt. I mean, if Cat Stevens ran for President, I assure you I'd have a lot of questions about his faith, too. Until then, I'm holding Mitt's mitts to the fire. And as smart as you are, you should too.

Anabeth, a man's religion matters not to me. Religion is a very private and personal thing. When it comes to government and politics, as long as a person is moral and honest, I couldn't care less whether they be Christian, Muslim or Jewish. Or any other sect that may be out there. The Seperation of Church and State protects the religious and the irrelgious alike. Article VI of the Constitution specifically outlaws any "religious test for office." So, Mitt Romney's religion has no bearing on his qualifications for office.

Ryan, have mercy! A conservative who actually accepts the separation of church and state AND who says he doesn't care about a politician's religious beliefs? If I wasn't married...! ;) Have a good weekend and I'll see you down the road!

Romney needs to answer for the Mass healthcare program with a stronger argument, as most of his possible supporters oppose it. So far, he has said the program could work only if costs were kept down and the growth of the program was disciplined, and that failed to happen in the stewardship of the program after his tenure.

That's the fatal flaw in putting healthcare in the hands of government. It simply cannot administer the program without falling into the traps that ultimately render the program unsustainable. Gov. can't limit or discipline itself. It's natural tendency is to expand and acquire ever more reach, which requires more dollars.

3:55, it doesn't much help to be a student of history if you are drawing the wrong conclusions from it. If you think those economic principles caused the depression, I invite you to live under leftist central planning, which is where we are headed, and which could be described as "perpetual, unyielding depression with no end."

People continue to hold economic debates in economic terms. Don't forget there's a moral dimension to economic systems, no just who gets what, and how much. Centralized, collectivist systems negate the view that individuals are endowed with personal rights that government cannot take away. The collectivist programs that were a reaction to the depression actually caused it to go on longer, just as our own deficit-heavy programs are doing today. Unlike true students of history, we're making the same mistakes, as usual.. Blame it on our politicized educational system.

Posted By: Romney needs to answer for the Mass healthcare program with a stronger argument, as most of his poss | July 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM